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‘Now my young friend,’ he said, ‘take me to the captain. Quickly! 
I can break your arm.’ 
 
 
The captain looked at the black paper in his hand. Then he read 
the words on it. 
‘Ten o’clock! They’re coming at ten o’clock,’ he said. ‘We’ve 
got six hours!’ He tried to stand up, but he was too ill. 
I ran for my mother, but it was too late. When we came back 
the captain was dead on the floor. 
♦ 
My mother and I went to the village, but the people there did 
not want to help us. They were too afraid. Our friend the doctor 
was away. Nobody could help us. 
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‘I must get my money from the captain’s box,’ my mother said. 
‘It’s our money.’
We opened the box. There were some old coats and shirts and a 
bag of money. My mother began to take the money. 
‘Quickly!’ I said. ‘It’s nearly ten o’clock.’ 
It was a cold night, and very quiet. Suddenly, I heard a sound 
on the road. Then I heard someone stop outside the inn. We 
waited, but then everything was quiet again. Nothing moved. 
‘Quickly, mother!’ I said. ‘Take all the captain’s money.’ 
‘No,’ she said. ‘I don’t want it all.’ Then we heard someone 
again, outside the front door. 
‘Let’s go without the money,’ my mother said. 
I took an envelope from the captain’s box. ‘I’m going to take 
this,’ I said. 
We left the inn very quietly through the back door. We heard 
men running along the road to the inn. 
We stopped behind some trees and watched the men. There 
were seven or eight of them, all pirates. They broke down the 
door of the inn and ran inside. 
‘Bill’s dead!’ someone said. 
‘Open his box!’ a second man said. 
‘The money’s here!’ 
‘Flint’s map! Where’s Flint’s map?’ 
‘We can’t find it!’ 
‘It’s not here!’ 
‘It’s those people at the inn - it’s that boy! The boy’s got the 
map. Find them, boys!’ 
The men moved quickly. They looked into every room in the 
inn. 
‘Listen!’ one of them said. ‘Someone’s coming! We must run!’ 
‘No, find the boy! He’s near here somewhere, I know.’ 
Then I heard a gun. The pirates heard it too, and began to run 
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We stopped behind some trees and watched the men. 

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away. We waited for a minute or two and then we went back to 
the inn. 
‘What did the pirates want?’ a man from the village asked me. 
‘Did they find the captain’s money?’ 
‘Yes,’ I said. ‘But I think they wanted this.’ I showed him the 
envelope. ‘I think there’s a map inside it.’ 
‘You must take it to Mr Trelawney,’ he told me. 
♦ 
When I arrived at Mr Trelawney’s house, Dr Livesey was there. 
‘Hello Jim, what is it?’ he asked. 
I told him about the pirates. 
‘Let’s see that map,’ the doctor said. ‘But first, Mr Trelawney, 
what do you know about Captain Flint?’ 
‘Flint?’ said Mr Trelawney. ‘He was a famous pirate and a very 
bad man. Everybody was afraid of Captain Flint. But he’s dead 
now.’ 
‘Did he have any money?’ asked the doctor. 
‘Money!’ said Mr Trelawney. ‘He was the richest pirate in the 
West Indies.’ 
‘Then perhaps this map shows where Captain Flint’s treasure 
is,’ said the doctor. 
‘What?’ said Mr Trelawney. ‘Then I must buy a ship and we 
can all go and look for the treasure.’ 
The doctor opened the map very carefully. It was a map of an 
island. There was some writing on the map. It said: ‘Treasure 
here’. 
Mr Trelawney and the doctor were excited. ‘Livesey!’ said Mr 
Trelawney. ‘Tomorrow I’m going to Bristol. I’m going to buy a 
ship and find sailors. Jim, you and Dr Livesey are going to come 
with me to look for the treasure!’ 
♦ 
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Treasure Island 1750 
The next day Mr Trelawney left for Bristol. I stayed at home and 
waited. At last, weeks later, Dr Livesey got a letter from Bristol. 
Dear Livesey,